Sentence examples for controversial conception from inspiring English sources

For example, does this view presuppose a particular and controversial conception of the good life?

If there is anything that people cannot reasonably be expected to agree about, it is what constitutes human good, so introducing a controversial conception of human good as part and parcel of the ideal of equality that is to be at the core of the principles of justice is a bad mistake.

In Hegel, the non-traditionalists argue, one can see the ambition to bring together the universalist dimensions of Kant's transcendental program with the culturally contextualist conceptions of his more historically and relativistically-minded contemporaries, resulting in his controversial conception of spirit, as developed in his Phenomenology of Spirit.

Charles Larmore argues that it is wrong for government to impose a policy that could only be justified by appeal to the claim that some controversial conception of the good is superior to another (Larmore 1987 and 1996; for criticism of the neutrality requirement, see Raz 1986 and Sher 1997).

A similar conclusion can be reached without recourse to highly controversial conceptions of time.

One caveat to this claim is that public justification is commonly taken to exclude appeal not only to controversial conceptions of the good, but also to wider controversial philosophical or metaphysical claims i.e. to what Rawls terms comprehensive doctrines.

This implies that the liberal conception of justice, and the legitimation of political power more generally, can be specified and justified without crucial reference to controversial conceptions of value and moral principles (what Rawls calls "comprehensive moral conceptions" (Rawls 1993, 13 15).

The Second Coming was controversial from its conception.

Regardless of the form of perceived pressure, there does appear to be both internal and external pressure to understand science conceptions that are not believed, resulting in compartmentalization of controversial science concepts.

After a promising conception, a controversial confinement, and a difficult labour and delivery, the revised Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines for the management of severe sepsis and septic shock have been published [ 1].

Priorities in law enforcement and particular conceptions of controversial legal issues — affirmative action, severity and leniency in criminal prosecution and sentencing, antitrust policies, civil rights enforcement — have always been part of a president's project for the nation.